The Origin of Species - By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the
                                
                                
                             
                            
                         
                            
                            
                        This sixth edition of The Origin of Species was published in 1876. It is the last edition on which Darwin himself worked before his death in 1882, and complements the 2009 scholarly edition, edited by Jim Endersby and published by Cambridge University Press in Darwin's bicentennial year.